FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Do You Have The Will To Do?

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Food for thought today is about your will to do, to achieve, to go further, aim higher and knock that ball out of the ballpark!

Embracing life is what it is all about. Doesn't that titillate your fancy – just that word "embrace" says I'm taking it all...

Living Large

I have always felt I was living large – life is immense you know –  I instinctively knew it was a natural feeling but when you have been squeezed into a box for decades, it becomes a helluva challenge to work out all those kinks.

Now that I am "unkinking" myself, everyone is duly warned to watch out 'cause here I come and see, that is what I want for you too!

Aiming High

So I ask you, are you aiming high enough? Are others trying to limit you with comments like "don't try to do it all at once", "start small", "be careful", "don't hang your hat higher than you can reach" and more crap like that?

And when you are feeling optimistic and talking up yourself and your goals you hear brown stuff coming out like "don't count your chickens before they're hatched" and more?

Ignore them all!

Shut Up

Stop talking about your business and your plans. Keeping your mouth shut about your goals and aspirations is your best option: just get on with it. As I read somewhere once "tell everyone how you did it after you do it" and save yourself a lot of heartache, sabotage and grief.
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However, if you have someone who supports you unstintingly come what may, treasure that person, they are golden!

You Must Dream

It is absolutely essential to have a grand purpose in life and the only way to do that is to dream your goals into being. You must dream! By the time I was seven years old I stopped dreaming. Now that has all changed.

Know that in taking the necessary steps to do what you can right now even though paradoxically it may seem unrelated (my experience), reaching the unreachable stars becomes viable although it might not be obvious right then.

Hence my question – do you have the will to do? Do not ever let anyone stop you doing what you want to do. Aim high and learn to soar...

Thought and Purpose

I read a fascinating article by Anne Naylor Finding Your Personal Motivational Trend which was so poetic about finding your purpose and the twists and turns experienced on the path to freedom to be ourselves. You have to be ready to take on the world and win!

Bob Proctor's wise words are particularly apt here If you already know how to achieve your purpose then it's not big enough.

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James Allen says:

Having conceived of his purpose, a man should mentally mark out a straight pathway to its achievement, looking neither to the right nor to the left. 

Doubts and fears should be rigorously excluded; they are disintegrating elements which break up the straight line of effort, rendering it crooked, ineffectual, useless.

Thoughts of doubt and fear never accomplish anything, and never can. They always lead to failure. Purpose, energy, power to do, and all strong thoughts cease when doubt and fear creep in.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. 

Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step.

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. His every thought is allied with power, and all difficulties are bravely met and wisely overcome.


His purposes are seasonably planted, and they bloom and bring forth fruit which does not fall prematurely to the ground.

Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force. He who knows this is ready to become something higher and stronger than a mere bundle of wavering thoughts and fluctuating sensations. 

He who does this has become the conscious and intelligent wielder of his mental powers.

James Allen, As A Man Thinketh